credit society which it has imitated from France ; but with in the plan. The French association is independent both of the -Bank of France and of the Government; the Austrian is...

Government is no t di sposed isposed to let Jersey be the residence of conspirators against the Emperor of the French. It will be remembered that certain persons signed a...

of difficulties in which the relations between the British Government and the Government of the United States have fallen. Not that there has been any formal threat of war from...

Tnn season is asserting itself in the Crimea as the Commander- in-chief who is most peremptorily to be obeyed. The move- ments on both sides beoome oramped by the advance of the...

from previous accounts. It seems that the population does not continue stationary; the emigration having declined to the rate at _which it was moving in 1847, and thus not...

Yesterday was the first day of Michaelmas term ; and, in accordance with the old custom, the Lord Mayor Elect was presented to the Lord Chancellor; Mr. Sergeant Mereweather...

Trim heavy rains in the beginning of the week prevented the Queen from taking her usual exercise out of doors ; but on Thursday she walked with the children in the Home Park ;...

A school for the children of Commercial Travellers hasjust been fin- ished at Pinner, close to the station there belonging to the North-Western Railway Company : it is intended...

on Sunday. Tkere were successively presented to him—Baron You der Pfordten, the Bavarian Prime Minister ; Baron von Beust, the Saxon Prime Minister ; General Willisen, a...

The candidates for the representation of Meath, left vacant by the death of Mr. Lucas, are Mr. Henry Meredyth, a nephew of Sir William Somerville, and identified in politics "...

The foundation-stone of a new Industrial School at Dundee was laid last week by Mr. Duncan, the Member. In the course of his address, he expressed strong opinions, much...

Lord Stanley was expected to attend an educational meeting at raken ham on Thursday. Instead.of his real presence, he appeared by letter; which Captain Townshend M.P. read to...

held yesterday, the Mayor in the chair, it was resolved that a memorial should be erected to commemorate the late Archdeacon Brooks. As it stands, the memorial will be a statue...

a visit from the Lord-Lieutenant. The great event came off this week. Lord Carlisle arrived at Belfast on Wednesday, and on Thursday he was pre- sent at a public banquet given...

this shape from Paris, dated yesterday- " Despatches have arrived from the Crimea. The Allies have completed important reconnaissances, and retired. The bases of action are all...

SATURDAY. No definitive intelligence as yet respecting the mode of filling the va- cancies in the Government. We have printed, among our miscellaneous news, Lord Stanley's...

Letter from Dr. John Davy, on the treatment of the Medical Officers of the Army in the Crimea, stands over for next week. Several other Letters are on our table, waiting their...

STOCY Excesses, FRIDAY AYTIIIIDOON. There has been an increased demand for money this week, both in the dis- count-market and the Stock Exchange; principally owing to the...

A little vapid thing produced at Drury Lane, with the title Twenty Minutes with a Tiger, just serves to show how Mr. Charles Mathews can whip up even nothing -the very nil-into...

Yesterday evening this important series was for the first time exhibited under the effect of gas-light. This effect is one which suits the rich warmth of a well-toned...

The indefatigable playgoer, who, having on Wednesday week regaled himself with Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh at Sadler's Wells, proceeded on the following Saturday to the Haymarket,...

of theatrical activity. On Monday, Mario reappeared at the Italiens, as Almaviva, to the Rosina of Madame Borghi-Mauro. At the Theatre Lyrique, a new Belgian com- poser, M....

THE PEACE PARTY AND THE WAR PARTY. 31st October 1855. Six-Will you permit roe to offer a few remarks on the leading article of your last number, in which you discuss the...

31st October 1866. Sin—We have once more a rumour of "difficulties" on the part of the United States in relation to England and the European Powers. The dif- ficulty is a...

Belfast, 27th October 1855. Sin—I see that in the petition to Parliament embodying the views of the Administrative Reform Association, it is proposed that the Private and Local...

LORD STANLEY SENT FOR. loan STANLEY could not go down to Fakenham, because he had to go down to Knowsley on Wednesday night. The chairman sus- pected that some " state...

Aersonsai there is no general desire that Parliament should meet before Christmas, there would be some convenience in the sitting of the two Houses at the present time, inasmuch...

" IF these figures could be relied upon," says Mr. Caird, after summing up the probable results of the crop, derived from actual observation, " there would be no further anxiety...

TEE announcement of the conviction and sentence of the three bank- ers at the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, startled the town. " But will the sentence be carried out P...

THE disturbance to the peace of the Metropolis which now occurs weekly in Hyde Park and its neighbourhood, shows that the ex- isting arrangements for the preservation of order...

IN these modern days of ours, printing has become a sort of " culte," and the humble profession of literature is transformed, to use the cant transcendental phrase, into the "...

CARICATURISTS never rise to reality. George Cruikshank, years ago, drew the freeborn Englishman undergoing all the compulsions to which that creature was subjected in 1819. Both...

LEWES'S LIFE OF GOETHE: . AMONG the literary men of the last hundred years, there is no more interesting figure than Johann Wolfgang Goethe. With the exception of Napoleon...

THE interest of this work is marred by an ineffective display of the materials at the author's disposal. Signor Gallenga opens too far beyond the beginning. The disquisitional...

Tam book is one of the many signs of the really philanthropic spirit which is now moving society, and aiming at the benefit of mankind by raising men rather than what is called...

On the 16th October, at Lawers House, Perthshire, the Wife of Brevet-Major Hamm, Forty-ninth Regiment, of a daughter. On the 17th, in Rue du Faubourg St. Honort, Paris, the...

Boosts. No very early forthcoming publications of mark are promised, but the week has not been barren of books. A good many, indeed, are of slight character, or of the...

WAR-OFFIC.E, NOVEMBER 2. General Orders. Dated Horse Guards, Nov. 1. The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-chief has received the Queen's most gracious commands that Brevet-Col. W....

BRITISH FUND 8. (Closing Prices.) Seterd. Monday. Tuesday Wednes Annuities 1885 Long Annuities . 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents. 8 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 871...

saddlers—Lamb and Clough, Manchester, cloth-agents—Hunt and Co. Prestatyn, Flintsbire, grocers— Mann and Co. Leeds, tailors ; as far as regards W. E. R. Walker—Fayerbrother and...